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Jan. 8, 2013

Obama administration legal team is divided over whether to drop two terrorism cases originally prosecuted in military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, decision that could significantly reduce number of other prisoners who can receive tribunal trials. MORE

New military tribunals are the boldest initiative in a series of laws and rewritten federal regulations that, taken together, have created an alternate system of justice in the aftermath of Sept. 11, giving the government far greater power to detain, investigate and prosecute people suspected of involvement in terrorism.

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The Justice Department disclosed that a grand jury had indicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused in the Sept. 11 attacks under seal in December 2009. It released the 81-page indictment, along with an order unsealing and dismissing it, on Monday.